Earlier this month, we visited Google in Chicago, where we got a chance to put the Cloudchef cooking guidance system through its paces.
For those not familiar with Cloudchef, the company uses computer vision to monitor a chef working through a recipe. Sensors and cameras monitor everything from the temperature of a protein to the moisture lost while reducing a sauce to the brownness of an onion and put it all into a machine-readable playback file that can be executed in a kitchen powered with Cloudchef’s software.
We put this playback system, which acts essentially as a cooking guidance system, into action. In the video below, you can watch The Spoon’s Tiffany McClurg being introduced to the system by Cloudchef CEO Nikhil Abraham, and then watch as she cooks a meal of fried rice using a recipe that was created and “captured” in a Google Mountain View kitchen by one of their in-house chefs.
According to Tiffany, she’d never cooked fried rice. Using Cloudchef’s system, it took her about ten minutes to make a meal that tasted pretty darn good!
You can watch The Spoon’s new newly trained chef cook the entire meal using Cloudchef in the video below.
